New LDS mission president arrives

5:40 PM,
Jul. 12, 2013

John Center, the new president of the Utah St. George Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, bids farewell Wednesday to Elder Probst, a local missionary, at an LDS meetinghouse in St. George.

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With so many changes to the missionary program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it's an exciting time to be a new mission president.

Yet, President John Center, who now leads the church's Utah St. George Mission, says he's simply looking forward to meeting all of the 175 young missionaries serving in Southern Utah and northern Arizona in addition to the older couples who bring the number of LDS missionaries in the region to more than 200.

"Working with missionaries, it doesn't get any better than that," he says. ...